My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know o...r care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are pla...nning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a st...urgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latter ...deserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »